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(No Model.) 2 Shets-Sheet 1. E. PINKHAM.

ORINGLE GLEW FOR SAILS.

No. 439,422. Patented Oct. 28, 1890.

(No Model.) a 2 Shets-Sheet 2.

E. PINKHAM.

ORINGLE OLEW FOR SAILS.

No. 439,422. Patented Oct. 28, 1890. I

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDXVIN PINKI-IAM, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO GRAFTON LLOYD ROGERS AND HARRY ROGERS, BOTH OF SAME PLACE.

CRlNGLE-CLEW FOR SAILS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 439,422, dated October 28, 1890.

Application filed June 4, 1889.

T at whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN PINKHAM, a citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore city, in the State of Maryland, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Oringle-Olews for Sails, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to cringles for sails;

' and it consists in the improved construction to and arrangement or combination of parts,

hereinafter fully disclosed in the description, drawings, and claims.

The objects of my invention are, first, to provide improved means for securing cringles I 5 to the edges or corners of sails for the attachment of earings, clew-lines, hoops, or other articles of ships rigging; second, to provide an improved cringle, which is secured to the bolt-rope and to a portion of the sail inside of the latter; third, to provide improved means for further securing said cringle, and, fourth, to provide improved means for pre- Venting chafing of the bolt rope or fastenings at the cringle. These objects are attained in the cringle illustrated in the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which the same reference-numerals indicate the same parts, and in which-- Figurel represents a side view of a portion of a sail provided with my improved cringle;

Fig. 2, a similar View showing the cringle applied in the corner of a sail to serve as a clew for the attachment of a clew-lineg Fig.3, a transverse section on the line no at, Fig. 1, and

5 Fig. 4: a side View, of a portion of a sail provided with my cringle, showing the chafingpiece removed; and Fig. 5 shows the ringcringle formed with a projecting eye on its sail-fastened part.

In the drawings, the numeral 1 indicates the sail, the edge of which is bound in the usual manner with the bolt-rope 2. The cringle B is formed of a circular or oblong ring 4, of malleable metal or rope, which has at 5 diametrically opposite points two eyes 5,

formed at right angles to said ring. The cringle is secured to the sail by having the bolt-rope passed through its two eyes and by having the inner portion which overlaps the Serial No. 313,066.

(No model.)

attachment of the earing if the cringle be I used at the leech of a sail for the reefing earings; of the clew-line, if it be used for a clew,

as shown in Fig. 2; of the hank or hoop, if it be used in the luff of the sail; of the sheets,

if itbe used in the heel or corner of a sail; of the down-haul, halyards, or any other port-ion of a ships rigging, according to its location upon the sail. A key or fiat bar 8 is preferably driven through the eyes of the cringle at the inner side of the bolt-rope and serves to stiffen said rope at the'point of attachment of the cringle and to further secure and wedge or clamp the cringle to the boltrope. A chafing-piece 90f canvas is preferably passed around the bolt-rope through the cringle and is secured by stitching or seizing to the sail, covering the inner portion of the cringle and the grommets and seizings, and said chafingpiece serves to protect the bolt-rope and the grommets and seizings from chafing wear against the portion of the rigging to which the cringle is attached.

It will be obvious that this style of cringle and its fastening will be more secure than the old-style cringle, in which a thimble was inserted through an eye formed by a strand of rope, spliced from two grommets in the sail, in which the sail was liable to be stripped entirely off the bolt-rope if a tear should occur at one of the grommets, and. that my improved cringle is less liable to wear than the aforesaid old style, besides being easier applied.

My improved cringle will be less cumbersome and simpler in construction when used for a clew-eye than the old-style clew-eye, 0 which consisted in a ring secured in two metal grommets or thimbles secured in the corner of the sail, in which said grommets or thimbles were very liable to work loose and rip the sail.

If the cringle is to be applied to an old sail, it may be made with split eyes, which may be passed over the bolt-rope and thereupon secured, and even in this form it will be simpler to apply than a oringle composed of two halves and riveted upon the bolt-rope and sail, such as have heretofore been made.

My eyed cringle-clew can be attached to any out of sail, and it may be formed with a laterally-projecting eye 0 on its part, which extends over and is fastened to the body of the sail inside of the bolt-rope for the attachment of a clew-line block for hauling or furling up square-cut sails, to the corner of which the device is applied.

Referring to the re-enforoing bar 8, it may be placed within the bolt-rope covering-sail.

Having thus fully described the construction and arrangement or combination of the several parts of my improved oringle, its use and advantages, what I claim as new is 1. An improved oringle, which consists of a ring having two opposite eyes formed'in it and whose planes are at right angles to the plane of the ring, substantially as described.

2. In combination with a sail and its boltrope, a oringle consisting of a ring having opposite eyes through which the bolt-rope passes and whose planes are at right angles to the plane of the ring and secured to the sail by the inner overlapping portion, substantially as described.

3. In combination with a sail and its boltrope, a oringle consisting of a ring having opposite eyes whose planes are at right angles to the plane of said ring and through which the bolt-rope passes, and having its inner overlapping portion secured to the sail, and a key or bar inserted through said eyes and said bolt-rope, substantially as described.

4. In combination with a sail and its boltrope, a cringle consisting of a ring having opposite eyes whose planes are at right angles to theplane of said ring and through which the bolt-rope passes, and having its inner overlapping portion secured to the sail, and a chafing-pieceinserted through said oringle and around said bolt-rope and having its ends secured to the sail and covering the inner portion of said cringle, substantially as described.

5. In combination with a sail and its boltrope, a oringle consisting of a ring having two opposite eyes whose planes are at right angles to the plane of said ring and through which the bolt-rope passes, and having its inner overlapping portion secured by seizings passed through grommets in the sail, a key or bar inserted through said eyes and against the inner side of the bolt-rope, and a chafing piece inserted through the outer portion of said oringle and around said bolt-rope and stitched to said sail to cover the inner portion of said oringle and its seizings, substantially as described.

6. An improved oringle, which consists of a ring having two eyes formed in it diametrically opposite and whose planes are at right angles to the plane of the ring and a laterally-projecting eye formed at its sail-fastened part, substantially as described, for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EDWIN PINKHAM.

Witnesses:

A. E. H. JoHNsoN, CHAS. F. GERRY. 

